>Naommi --
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>I'm not aware of the naming convention that would use "tc" as the prefix ... I understand "lc" to mean "Local Character" ... what is "tc"? (I guess I'M missing the <g>)
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The parameters are always prefixed with t, e.g.

lparameters tcChar, tnNumeric, tlLogical, ttTime, tdDate. I think there was a thread discussing what t stands for, but I forgot. I can try to search. Anyway, that's common between VFP developers to name parameters with t instead of l to differentiate between parameters and local variables.